@wawa @bison

Could memory protection be introduced - with a sandboxing for the classic Amiga stuff? else the whole exercise is pointless...

I thought thats what AROS was - an Amiga OS compatible api, running in a sandbox + some enhancements?

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@wawa
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the concerns of security are another matter. but this is a problem common to all amiga like platforms. i think we need to accept the situation that these are outdated platforms that will never offer features expected on a contemporary system.

Yes, I agree. AmigaOS and AROS are just hobbies for me, since I'm not willing to ignore the security problems.

@bobson
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I thought thats what AROS was - an Amiga OS compatible api, running in a sandbox + some enhancements?

AROS is a reimplementation of AmigaOS, but there is no sandbox. If you run AROS hosted, then there is some protection, since AROS runs in a host OS process and cannot affect other host processes.

If you want an Amiga-like system for day-to-day use, then AROS is not it, unless you are willing to ignore the security problems.

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So how much work would be involved in porting OS4 to RPi / ARM? or are we better off binning it all, and starting again?

There's no starting over; it's too late for that. It took Linux 27 years and thousands of developers to get where it is today. If someone were to start from scratch they would never catch up -- they would never achieve a modern system, because the definition of a modern system keeps advancing.

In many ways this is not a good thing. IMO systems have become too complicated. I'm glad that Moore's Law seems to be slowing down.

Running AmigaOS via emulation is a hobby of mine, but I'm already happy with how that works. It's my day-to-day system that I find lacking. This is why I spend most of my discretionary programming time trying to make something more Amiga-like on Linux.

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